Simply complexity: a clear guide to complexity theory /
Neil F. Johnson.
- Oxford : Oneworld, 2007.
- xiii, 236 p. ill. 20 cm.
"First published in hardcover by Oneworld Publications as Two's Company, Three is Complexity, 2007"--Title page verso.
Two's company, three is complexity -- Disorder rules, OK? -- Chaos and all that jazz -- Mob mentality -- Getting connected -- What can complexity science do for me? Forecasting financial markets -- Tackling traffic networks and climbing the corporate ladder -- Looking for Mr./Mrs. Right -- Coping with conflict : next-generation wars and global terrorism -- Catching a cold, avoiding super-flu, and curing cancer -- The mother of all complexities : our nanoscale quantum world -- To infinity and beyond.
Johnson uses real-life examples as he leads us on a fascinating and entertaining romp through cutting-edge topics like chaos, game theory, economics, and even jazz and quantum physics. He shows the surprising ways in which order eventually emerges from the interaction of all things.